Disingenuousadjective
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
Ingenuineadjective
false, not genuine or authentic.
Disingenuousadjective
Not ingenuous; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
Disingenuousadjective
Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
Disingenuousadjective
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; as, disingenuous conduct or schemes.
Disingenuousadjective
Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
‘So disingenuous as not to confess them [faults].’;
Disingenuousadjective
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness;
‘an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time’; ‘a disingenuous excuse’;
Disingenuousadjective
not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does
‘this journalist was being somewhat disingenuous as well as cynical’;